NR 489.03(2)(b)(b) For purposes of this subsection, the following rates apply in maintenance areas:
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NR 489.03 NoteNote: There are no counties located in an ozone transport region in Wisconsin.
NR 489.03(3)(3)The requirements of this chapter do not apply to:
NR 489.03(3)(a)(a) Actions where the total of direct and indirect emissions are below the emissions levels specified in sub. (2).
NR 489.03(3)(b)(b) The following actions, which would result in no emissions increase or an increase in emissions that is clearly de minimis:
NR 489.03(3)(b)1.1. Judicial and legislative proceedings.
NR 489.03(3)(b)2.2. Continuing and recurring activities such as permit renewals where activities conducted will be similar in scope and operation to activities currently being conducted.
NR 489.03(3)(b)3.3. Rulemaking and policy development and issuance.
NR 489.03(3)(b)4.4. Routine maintenance and repair activities, including repair and maintenance of administrative sites, roads, trails and facilities.
NR 489.03(3)(b)5.5. Civil and criminal enforcement activities, such as investigations, audits, inspections, examinations, prosecutions and the training of law enforcement personnel.
NR 489.03(3)(b)6.6. Administrative actions such as personnel actions, organizational changes, debt management or collection, cash management, internal agency audits, program budget proposals, and matters relating to the administration and collection of taxes, duties and fees.
NR 489.03(3)(b)7.7. The routine, recurring transportation of material and personnel.
NR 489.03(3)(b)8.8. Routine movement of mobile assets, such as ships and aircraft, in home port reassignments and stations, when no new support facilities or personnel are required, to perform as operational groups or for repair or overhaul.
NR 489.03(3)(b)9.9. Maintenance dredging and debris disposal where no new depths are required, applicable permits are secured, and disposal will be at an approved disposal site.
NR 489.03(3)(b)10.10. With respect to existing structures, properties, facilities and lands where future activities conducted will be similar in scope and operation to activities currently being conducted at the existing structures, properties, facilities and lands, actions such as relocation of personnel, disposition of federally-owned existing structures, properties, facilities and lands, rent subsidies, operation and maintenance cost subsidies, the exercise of receivership or conservatorship authority, assistance in purchasing structures, and the production of coins and currency.
NR 489.03(3)(b)11.11. The granting of leases, licenses such as for exports and trade, permits and easements where activities conducted will be similar in scope and operation to activities currently being conducted.
NR 489.03(3)(b)12.12. Planning, studies and provision of technical assistance.
NR 489.03(3)(b)13.13. Routine operation of facilities, mobile assets and equipment.
NR 489.03(3)(b)14.14. Transfers of ownership, interests and titles in land, facilities and real and personal properties, regardless of the form or method of the transfer.
NR 489.03(3)(b)15.15. The designation of empowerment zones, enterprise communities, or viticultural areas.
NR 489.03(3)(b)16.16. Actions by any of the federal banking agencies or the federal reserve banks, including actions regarding charters, applications, notices, licenses, the supervision or examination of depository institutions or depository institution holding companies, access to the discount window, or the provision of financial services to banking organizations or to any department, agency or instrumentality of the United States.
NR 489.03(3)(b)17.17. Actions by the board of governors of the federal reserve system or any federal Reserve Bank to effect monetary or exchange rate policy.
NR 489.03(3)(b)18.18. Actions that implement a foreign affairs function of the United States.
NR 489.03(3)(b)19.19. Actions, or portions thereof, associated with transfers of land, facilities, title and real properties through an enforceable contract or lease agreement where the delivery of the deed is required to occur promptly after a specific, reasonable condition is met, such as promptly after the land is certified as meeting the requirements of the comprehensive environmental response, compensation and liability act (CERCLA), and where the federal agency does not retain continuing authority to control emissions associated with the lands, facilities, title or real properties.
NR 489.03(3)(b)20.20. Transfers of real property, including land, facilities and related personal property from a federal entity to another federal entity and assignments of real property, including land, facilities and related personal property from a federal entity to another federal entity for subsequent deeding to eligible applicants.
NR 489.03(3)(b)21.21. Actions by the department of the treasury to effect fiscal policy and to exercise the borrowing authority of the United States.
NR 489.03(3)(c)(c) Actions where the emissions are not reasonably foreseeable, such as electric power marketing activities that involve the acquisition, sale and transmission of electric energy.
NR 489.03(3)(d)(d) Individual actions which implement a decision to conduct or carry out a program that has been found to conform to the applicable implementation plan, such as prescribed burning actions which are consistent with a land management plan that has been found to conform to the applicable implementation plan. The land management plan shall have been found to conform within the past 5 years.